University of Hawaiʻi and Victoria University of Wellington Form Partnership

WHAT: The University of Hawaiʻi and Victoria University of Wellington will sign into a cooperative agreement, which allows for scholarly exchange of faculty and students, as well as joint research projects and curriculum development between the two institutions.

WHEN: Tuesday, November 27 10 a.m.

WHERE: John Young Museum of Art Library, Krauss Hall UH Manoa campus

PROGRAM: UH President Evan S. Dobelle and Victoria University of Wellington Vice Chancellor Stuart McCutcheon will sign the cooperative agreement. Serving as witnesses will be UH Senior Vice President and Chancellor for Community Colleges Joyce Tsunoda, who is also President Dobelle‘s senior advisor for international affairs, as well as Victoria University of Wellington Assistant Vice Chancellor Peter Englert.

Members of the media are encouraged to attend.

BACKGROUND

The University of Hawaiʻi and Victoria University of Wellington are interested in exploring and engaging in mutual cooperation to foster bicultural/multicultural Pacific-oriented teaching and research for the benefit of students and faculty members from both universities and their societies. The agreement provides the basis for cooperation in teaching and research, mutual advice on development of cooperation amongst Pacific universities, and the establishment of joint programs of teaching and research important for the state of Hawaiʻi and New Zealand, as well as the Hawaiian, Maori and Pacific Nations peoples.

The various units of the University of Hawaiʻi system maintain cooperative agreements with institutions in over 25 countries around the world. These international exchange agreements allow for scholarly exchange of faculty and students, as well as joint research projects and curriculum development between UH and international institutions.